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2. Socio-economic inequities in mental health problems and wellbeing among women working in the apparel and floriculture sectors: testing the mediating role of psychological capital, social support and tangible assets
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Schelleman-Offermans, Karen, Dito, Bilisuma B., Gudeta, Konjit H., Fourie, Elsje, Kebede, Sindu W., Mazzucato, Valentina, and Jonas, Kai J.
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- 2024
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3. ‘Doing’ Teamwork as ‘Doing’ Family: Researching Transnational Migrant Families Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration
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Mazzucato, Valentina, Dito, Bilisuma, Haagsman, Karlijn, Bijsterveld, Karin, editor, and Swinnen, Aagje, editor
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- 2023
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4. Mapping Transnational Networks of Care from a Multi-actor and Multi-sited Perspective
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Mazzucato, Valentina, Dankyi, Ernestina, Poeze, Miranda, Bernardi, Laura, Series editor, Spini, Dario, Series editor, Bonvin, Jean-Michel, Series editor, Bolzman, Claudio, editor, and Le Goff, Jean-Marie, editor
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- 2017
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5. Transnational migration, health and well-being: Nigerian parents in Ireland and the Netherlands
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White, Allen, Dito, Bilisuma B., Veale, Angela, and Mazzucato, Valentina
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- 2019
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6. Transnational relationships and reunification : Ghanaian couples between Ghana and Europe
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Caarls, Kim and Mazzucato, Valentina
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- 2016
7. Sustaining Ghanaian Transnational Parent–Child Relationships through WhatsApp: A Youth-Centric Perspective
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Osei, Onallia, Mazzucato, Valentina, Haagsman, Karlijn, Cienfuegos, Javiera, Brandhorst, Rosa, Bryceson, Deborah Fahy, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE, RS: FASoS GTD, and RS: FdR Research Group ITEM
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Current research on transnational families considers information communication technologies (ICTs or new media) central to sustaining familial ties but also highlights that abilities to stay connected are not the same for all members of transnational families. Previous studies have focused mainly on how migrant parents communicate with their children at origin or on adult migrant children interacting with their parents at ‘home’; hence, the perspectives of youth are missing. Young people take an active part in transnational communications and thereby co-shape transnational relations. Moreover, studies have focused mostly on ‘old’ ICTs such as phone calls, and most recently, Facebook and Skype. As ICTs continually change, we also need to look at new technologies that enable long-distance sociability, giving young people more room for manoeuvre. We address these gaps by investigating how young people who live in Ghana employ WhatsApp to engage with their migrant parents. We show that youth are agentic herein and devise various strategies to experience a sense of being together across geographical distance.
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- 2023
8. 'Giving back' through mobility trajectories: motivations for engaging in development encounters in Ghana among transnational youth
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Akom Ankobrey, Gladys, Mazzucato, Valentina, Wagner, Lauren B., Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE, RS: FASoS GTD, and RS: FdR Research Group ITEM
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MIGRANTS ,Range (biology) ,MIGRATION ,4. Education ,05 social sciences ,1. No poverty ,0507 social and economic geography ,Transnational youth ,Gender studies ,MICROPOLITICS ,ENGAGEMENT ,development encounters ,Ghana ,0506 political science ,Diaspora ,migrant youth ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,050602 political science & public administration ,Sociology ,diaspora engagement ,10. No inequality ,HOMETOWN ASSOCIATIONS ,AGENTS ,050703 geography ,Demography - Abstract
Literature on diaspora engagement in development activities has centred on the contributions of migrating adults to the 'homeland', which range from private transfers to single households, to community development projects. While such studies often focus on the impact of such activities on the country of origin, relatively few have focused on what transpires during development encounters and how this affects migrants', and especially young people's, motivation to engage transnationally over time. This paper combines migration and development, transnational migration studies and second generation 'returns' literature, to address these gaps. It studies the motivations of transnational youth to engage in development encounters, which they referred to as 'giving back', in the context of their mobility trajectories. Drawing on 17 months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in the Netherlands and accompanying young people during trips to Ghana, we show that giving back contributes to a sense of purpose that connects them transnationally. Young people's expectations of giving back were embedded in community narratives, which framed this as a means to 'become successful' in culturally valued ways. While young people sometimes encountered unexpected surprises, emotions experienced during development encounters led to learning that ultimately resulted in enhanced intentions of transnational engagement.
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- 2022
9. Aspiring While Waiting: Temporality and Pacing of Ghanaian Stayer Youth’s Migration Aspirations
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Osei, Onallia Esther, primary, Mazzucato, Valentina, additional, and Haagsman, Karlijn, additional
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- 2022
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10. Building Educational Resilience Through Transnational Mobility Trajectories
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van Geel, Joan, Mazzucato, Valentina, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE, RS: FdR Research Group ITEM, and RS: FASoS GTD
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Economic growth ,Health (social science) ,Sociology and Political Science ,MIGRATION ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Immigration ,Context (language use) ,CHILDREN ,IMMIGRANTS ,FAMILIES ,050602 political science & public administration ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Sociology ,10. No inequality ,Resilience (network) ,migration and education ,media_common ,Social work ,4. Education ,05 social sciences ,Transnational mobility trajectories ,050301 education ,educational resilience ,CARE ,0506 political science ,CONTEXT ,2ND-GENERATION ,YOUTH ,TRIPS architecture ,young Ghanaians ,MIGRANT PARENTS ,0503 education - Abstract
Trips by migrant youth to their origin country are seen by institutional actors such as teachers and social workers as disrupting youth's educational progress, and some European countries have financial and legal consequences when these trips take place during the school year. We follow Ghanaian youth living in The Netherlands on their journeys to Ghana and study how they experience such trips and are affected by them. Trips allow young people to reconnect with family and old friends, recollect memories, and confront them with poverty in their country of origin, making them resilient and motivated when facing adversities in school in the Netherlands. This study investigates how young Ghanaians' mobility between Ghana and The Netherlands relates to their educational resilience. Based on 20 months of multi-sited ethnographic research following 30 youths of 16-25 age group, we deploy a socio-ecological approach developed in social psychology to identify three resilience-building mechanisms: connection to motivational others, active recollection and comparative confrontation. These mechanisms have to date remained outside of the purview of resilience research and research on migration and education, as these fields focus on the nation-state rather than the transnational context in which young people operate. They thereby ignore mobility patterns that make other contexts relevant to young people's educational resilience. As such, we expand the socio-ecological model of resilience to include transnational elements and show how mobility can positively relate to education and the resilience of migrant youth.
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- 2021
11. Changing relationships to the country of origin through transnational mobility: migrant youth's visits to Ghana
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Ogden, Laura J., Mazzucato, Valentina, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE, RS: FASoS GTD, and RS: FdR Research Group ITEM
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Sociology and Political Science ,Geography, Planning and Development ,0507 social and economic geography ,Homeland ,mobile methods ,CHILDREN ,Ghana ,RETURN VISITS ,home visits ,migrant youth ,Germany ,050602 political science & public administration ,Demography ,second-generation returns ,05 social sciences ,Country of origin ,0506 political science ,Geography ,Home visits ,2ND-GENERATION ,HOMELAND ,Demographic economics ,Transnational youth mobility ,TRAJECTORIES ,050703 geography ,Physical mobility - Abstract
This paper explores how physical mobility shapes migrant youth's changing relationships to their or their parents' country of origin. Increasing numbers of youth in the Global North have a migration background and are transnationally engaged in virtual, imaginative and material mobilities. Yet our knowledge of their physical mobility is lacking, having largely been based on retrospective accounts from the country of residence, resulting in depictions of static relationships to a monolithic country of origin. This study takes a processual approach, focusing on mobility trajectories and exploring the sensorial, embodied and emotional aspects of physical mobility as it unfolds. Drawing on 14 months of mobile ethnographic fieldwork with 20 Ghanaian-background young people (aged 15-25) living in Hamburg, Germany, we focus on visits to Ghana to explore how physical mobility changes relationships to the country of origin over time (across several visits) and space (between different places within one visit). We use Urry's typology of proximity to analyse the specific and changing constellations of people, places and moments that constitute visits and thus shape these relationships. We also reflect on the methodological implications of using three mobile methods: mobility trajectory mapping, following mobility in real-time, and before-and-after interviewing.
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- 2022
12. Mobility Trajectory Mapping for Researching the Lives and Learning Experiences of Transnational Youth
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Mazzucato, Valentina, Akom Ankobrey, Gladys, Anschütz, Sarah, Ogden, Laura, Osei, Onallia, Magno, Cathryn, Rodriguez, Sophia, Lew, Jamie, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE, RS: FASoS GTD, RS: FdR Research Group ITEM, and RS: FASoS CGD
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existing methodologies for researching the lives of young people affected by migration have thus far oversimplified their physical mobility by focusing solely on their first international migration or that of their parents. However, previous research shows that migrant youth are mobile and that mobility plays an important role in their lives. This chapter presents mobility trajectory mapping as a methodological tool to record and study these varied mobility trajectories of migrant-background youth. Mapping trajectories allows researchers to employ a youth-centric and transnational lens by involving young people in the co-creation of knowledge about their experiences of moving between places, and by learning about the meanings they attribute to these experiences. This chapter presents our experiences in developing and implementing this method with 183 ghanaian-background young people in ghana, belgium, germany and the netherlands as part of the multi-sited, interdisciplinary research project “mobility trajectories of young lives (mo-trayl).” by discussing methodological advantages of mobility trajectory mapping and presenting analytical insights into the nature of transnational youth mobility that it facilitates, we show that mobility trajectory mapping offers an alternative way to research migrant-background youth with potentially deep repercussions for how we understand their transnational lives.
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- 2022
13. Transnational Families and the Well-Being of Children: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges
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Mazzucato, Valentina and Schans, Djamila
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- 2011
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14. Transnational families living between Africa and Europe
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Mazzucato, Valentina, Schans, Djamila, Caarls, Kim, and Beauchemin, Cris
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AFRICA ,EUROPE ,FAMILY_LIFE ,TRANSNATIONALISM - Abstract
International migration and family life are frequently difficult to reconcile. Valentina Mazzucato, Djamila Schans, Kim Caarls, and Cris Beauchemin focus on three cases (the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, and Senegal) and show how varied the solutions can be, with some families reunifying in the destination country, others back in the country of origin, and still others not reunifying at all but becoming instead “transnational families.” This article was also published on the INED website in English and in French.
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- 2020
15. The well-being of stay behind family members in migrant households
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Haagsman, Karlijn, Mazzucato, Valentina, Bastia, Tanja, Skeldon, Ronald, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE, RS: FASoS GTD, and RS: FdR Research Group ITEM
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Focus (computing) ,Well-being ,Economic security ,Physical health ,Demographic economics ,Sociology ,Social behaviour ,Left behind - Abstract
Most studies on migration focus on migrants and the effects migration has on the host society. But for every migrant that leaves his or her origin country, there are also family members and loved ones that he/she ‘leaves behind’. This geographic separation has well-being consequences on both sides and involves complex transnational caring arrangements when it concerns dependent children or elderly. Yet, only in the past decade has research turned its attention to the ‘left behind’ or stayers. This chapter provides an overview of this recent literature and discusses the effects migration has for stayer children and elderly. The chapter focuses on the main topic investigated by these studies, namely, the effect of migration on the well-being of those who stay in the origin country. Well-being is broadly defined as mental and physical health, education, social behaviour, household labour and economic security. Qualitative anthropological and sociological in-depth studies are reviewed, as are larger-scale quantitative sociological, demographic and psychological studies.
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- 2020
16. Population growth and the environment in Africa: local informal institutions, the missing link *
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Mazzucato, Valentina and Niemeijer, David
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Malthusianism -- Environmental aspects ,Population -- Environmental aspects ,Business, international ,Economics ,Geography - Abstract
Neo-Malthusian and neo-Boserupian thinking are highly influential in shaping the current population-environment debates. They provide two divergent reasonings as to the effects of population growth on the environment: one negative [...]
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- 2002
17. Transnational families: Cross‐country comparative perspectives
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Mazzucato, Valentina, Dito, Bilisuma, RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE, Technology & Society Studies, and RS: FASoS GTD
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PARENTAL MIGRATION ,MIGRANT PARENTS ,LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN ,HEALTH ,MEXICO - Abstract
This special issue aims to address the gap in transnational families studies by identifying if there are common patterns and effects of transnational family life across countries and regions, using cross-country comparative analyses. In this editorial introduction, we highlight the overarching themes emerging from seven papers, which employ new large-scale surveys specifically designed to collect information about transnational family life across different Latin American, African, and Southeast Asian countries and China. We discuss how these comparative studies offer new ways of understanding transnational families by focusing on their prevalence, composition, the experiences of their members, and how these change over time. We also highlight how differing and changing notions of care over space and a person's lifetime influence how transnational families are created, reproduced, maintained, and experienced. In general, the issue as a whole emphasises the need to take structural factors in both sending and receiving contexts into account when studying the form that transnational families take, how this changes over time, and the general and specific gendered effects they have on different members.
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- 2018
18. Theorising Chance: Capturing the Role of Ad Hoc Social Interactions in Migrants' Trajectories
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Gladkova, Nataliia, Mazzucato, Valentina, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASoS GTD, and RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE
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CULTURE ,TRANSIT MIGRATION ,EUROPE ,chance ,Africa ,BIOGRAPHICAL APPROACH ,trajectories ,DETERMINANTS ,LIFE PATHS ,NETWORKS - Abstract
When collecting migrants' life stories, researchers often report on the role of chance encounters in influencing the way migration trajectories have taken shape or how migrants have managed their lives in a new country. Aside from reporting on such encounters, however, there have been no explicit efforts to theorise chance or to make it central to in-depth analysis in migration studies. This paper aims to theorise the role of chance encounters in migrants' trajectories by drawing on insights from the psychology literature of chance encounters and life paths. Our analysis of the role of chance encounters, structured by the interplay between environmental and personal factors, suggests that how people deal with chance is an influential factor in the ways people migrate from the Global South to the Global North and manage their lives in transit. The paper makes use of evidence collected among 46 African migrants in Ukraine during 7 months of field research in 2011-2012 and reflects on the methodological implications in studying chance. Copyright (C) 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- 2017
19. Mothers on the Move: Reproducing Belonging between Africa and Europe
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Mazzucato, Valentina, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASoS GTD, and RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE
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- 2017
20. Migration and child health in Moldova and Georgia
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Cebotari, Victor, primary, Siegel, Melissa, additional, and Mazzucato, Valentina, additional
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- 2018
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21. Educational performance of children of migrant parents in Ghana, Nigeria and Angola
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Mazzucato, Valentina and Mazzucato, Valentina
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There is no empirical research on the school performance of children who live separated from their parents in sub-Saharan Africa-a major migrant sending region in the world. This study uses survey data from junior and secondary school children and youths in Ghana (N = 2760), Angola (N = 2243) and Nigeria (N = 2168) to examine how different transnational family formations such as internal or international parental absence accompanied by migration or divorce, who is the migrant parent and who is the caregiver, the stability of the caregiving arrangement and remittances relate with the school performance of children who stay behind. School performance is measured through an index of grades in language, mathematics and science. The results show that international parental migration (Ghana), the internal parental migration accompanied by divorce/separation (Nigeria) and migration of both parents (Ghana and Nigeria) are likely predictors for decreased school performance. No effects are observed when parents are abroad and divorced/separated, when only one parent migrates, when children are in a stable care arrangement or when children receive remittances or not. The analyses show that the overall relationship between parental absence and education varies by the transnational dimension being analysed and by context.
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- 2016
22. Migration and the education of children who stay behind in Moldova and Georgia
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Mazzucato, Valentina and Mazzucato, Valentina
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In Moldova and Georgia, two post-Soviet countries with high emigration rates, there is little systematic empirical research on the school performance of children whose family members migrate. This study uses nationally representative data (Moldova, N=814; Georgia, N=655) and employs child- and caregiver-reports of school performance of children living in different transnational family configurations. We found similar assessments of school performance by children and caregivers in Georgia, but results do suggest some differing perceptions in the Moldovan reports. Overall, fathers' migration, when mothers are caregivers, correspond to worsen education in Georgia. In Moldova, on the contrary, children with migrant fathers and cared for by mothers report improved school performance. Furthermore, in Moldova, better performance associates with parents being abroad, either together or divorced (child-reports) while decreased performance relates to the absence of remittances (caregiver reports). The findings highlight the importance of considering different transnational characteristics and who makes the assessment. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- 2016
23. Changing patterns of African Migration: A Comparative Analysis
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Schoumaker, Bruno, Flahaux, Marie-Laurence, Schans, Djamila, Beauchemin, Cris, Mazzucato, Valentina, Sakho, Papa, and UCL - SSH/IACS - Institute of Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies
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MIGRATION_FLOWS ,INTERNATIONAL_MIGRATION ,AFRICAN_IMMIGRATION - Abstract
The objective of this paper - using quantitative data of MAFE – is to provide an overview of the changing patterns of African migration in the MAFE countries. Three broad topics are addressed: (1) trend in departures and returns, (2) profiles of migrants, and (3) migration routes. The paper is by nature mainly descriptive, and has not the ambition of identifying determinants of migration as such. However, by describing major changes over the last 30 years, this paper suggests possible links with changing political, economic and policy contexts in both origin and destination countries.
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- 2013
24. Senegalese migrants between here and there: an overview of family patterns
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Beauchemin, Cris, Caarls, Kim, and Mazzucato, Valentina
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SENEGAL ,FAMILY_RELATIONS ,EUROPE ,SENEGALESE_IMMIGRATION ,INTERNATIONAL_MIGRATION ,TRANSNATIONALISM - Published
- 2013
25. Migration And family life between Congo and Europe
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Beauchemin, Cris, Caarls, Kim, Nappa, Jocelyn, Mazzucato, Valentina, Schoumaker, Bruno, and Mangalu, José
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FAMILY_RELATIONS ,EUROPE ,CONGOLESE_IMMIGRATION ,INTERNATIONAL_MIGRATION ,TRANSNATIONALISM - Published
- 2013
26. Changing patterns of Ghanean Migration
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Schans, Djamila, Mazzucato, Valentina, Schoumaker, Bruno, Flahaux, Marie-Laurence, and UCL - SSH/IACS - Institute of Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies
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Migration has been part of people’s experience in many parts of Africa throughout history (De Bruin et al. 2001) and Ghana is no exception. Migration flows were typically regional due to commerce, forced labor and circulatory nomadic routes. Over the last decades however, migration patterns extended geographically with larger shares of migrants moving to Europe and North America. Even within these regions, African migrant flows have been diversifying (Grillo & Mazzucato 2008). Yet little comparative empirical data exist on migration flows between Africa and Europe and many of the characteristics and changes of these flows are still largely unknown. The objective of this chapter is to first describe international migration patterns from Ghana using the quantitative MAFE household data collected in Kumasi and Accra, Ghana, and second to focus on migration from Ghana to Europe, and back, specifically as it concerns flows between Ghana, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom. This second focus uses the MAFE biographic data collected both in Ghana and in Europe.
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- 2013
27. Migrant families Between Africa And Europe: comparing Ghanaian, Congolese and Senegalese migration flows
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Mazzucato, Valentina, Schans, Djamila, Caarls, Kim, and Beauchemin, Cris
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GHANA ,SENEGALESE_IMMIGRATION ,CONGOLESE_IMMIGRATION ,MIGRATION_FLOWS ,TRANSNATIONALISM ,AFRICAN_IMMIGRATION - Published
- 2013
28. Migrant transnationalism: Two-way flows, changing institutions and community development between Ghana and The Netherlands
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Mazzucato, Valentina and Livelihoods, Environment and Governance (AMIDST, FMG)
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ddc:330 - Published
- 2006
29. The Impact of Millet, Sorghum, and Cowpea Research and Technology Transfer in Niger
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Mazzucato, Valentina and Ly, Samba
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9, [Crop Production/Industries, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies, Downloads July 2008 - June 2009] - Published
- 1996
30. An Economic Analysis of Research and Technology Transfer of Millet, Sorghum, and Cowpeas in Niger
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Mazzucato, Valentina and Ly, Samba
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11, R11, [food security, food policy, millet, sorghum, cowpeas, Crop Production/Industries, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies, Downloads July 2008 - July 2009] - Abstract
This study analyzes returns to investments in Niger's research and technology transfer system for millet, sorghum, and cowpea between 1975 and 1991. Sixty-eight percent of the country's public-sector outlays for agricultural research and 58% of its agricultural researchers were devoted to research on these three crops between 1986 and 1990. Most of this research was done by INRAN, the national agricultural research institute of Niger (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger).
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- 1994
31. Population Growth and the Environment in Africa: Local Informal Institutions, the Missing Link*
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Mazzucato, Valentina, primary and Niemeijer, David, additional
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- 2009
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32. Mapping Transnational Networks of Care from a Multi-actor and Multi-sited Perspective
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Mazzucato, Valentina, Dankyi, Ernestina, Poeze, Miranda, Bolzman, Claudio, Bernardi, Laura, LeGoff, Jean-Marie, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASoS GTD, and RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE
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Economic growth ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Perspective (graphical) ,1. No poverty ,Developing country ,Public relations ,Raising (linguistics) ,0506 political science ,Migration studies ,050902 family studies ,Political science ,Perception ,Ethnography ,050602 political science & public administration ,0509 other social sciences ,10. No inequality ,business ,Developed country ,Nuclear family ,media_common - Abstract
Increases in migration from developing countries to industrialized nations results in family members living in different countries, having to arrange care for young and elderly at a distance. A common form that these transnational families take is when a parent migrates, leaving his or her children in the care of someone in the home country. This results in transnational child raising arrangements (tcras) composed of migrant parents and their children and caregivers in the countries of origin. Transnational migration studies have begun to study this phenomenon, yet they tend to give prevalence to relationships between migrant parents, especially mothers, and children. Caregivers are not a focus. This is a consequence of researchers being guided by western conceptualizations of the family where prevalence is given to the nuclear family living in geographical proximity. This paper focuses on a recent study in which all members in a transnational child raising arrangement are the focus: the migrant overseas, the caregiver or multiple caregivers at home and the child him or herself. The study uses a mixed methods approach, which incorporates surveys of children and parents, the mapping of child raising networks with the different actors of a tcra (parents, caregivers and children), and an in-depth, multi-sited ethnographic study of a select number of child raising networks, giving equal attention to all members of a tcra. This paper focuses on the second method and highlights three contributions that such a method makes to our understanding of tcras. First, the mapping of child raising networks helps to identify the perceptions of care held by different members of a tcra. Secondly, discrepancies and similarities between different actors’ perspectives help to understand how tcras function. Finally, mapping child raising networks with all actors involved, gives children a voice which is an element often missing in research about children.
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33. Stayer youth shaping their transnational family lives: experiences and aspirations of migrants’ children living in Ghana
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Osei, Onallia Esther, Mazzucato, Valentina, Haagsman, Karlijn, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE, and RS: FASoS GTD
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A growing number of young people in origin countries reside there without one or both parents due to their parents’ international migration. However, most of the current literature overlooks the perceptions and agency of these youth due to increasing attention on what migrant parents and local caregivers do for stayer youth's experiences and aspirations. Contemporary youth studies call on emerging scholarships like this study to engage with youth for an extensive understanding of their experiences and aspirations. This is a case study of Ghanaian stayer youth's lives. I “followed” thirty-eight stayer youth for 15 months to understand their experiences and aspirations through a youth-centric ethnography. This study shows that stayer youth are agentic in shaping their experiences and aspirations over time within their transnational family context. These young people show their agency through the way they employ ICTs to maintain and shape their relationships with their parents abroad; how they mobilize broader local and transnational social support networks to ensure their educational trajectories; and the way they adapt their aspirations to match the resources that are available to them. This study shows the importance of going beyond the dyad or triad (migrant parent-stayer youth or migration parent-caregiver-stayer youth) that has characterised most transnational family studies, to account for all relationships or interactions that shape these youth's experiences and aspirations.
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- 2023
34. Young lives on the move
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Sarah Anschütz, Mazzucato, Valentina, Clycq, Noel, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE, and RS: FASoS GTD
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youth-centric ,migration ,multi-sited ,transnational engagements ,Ghana ,ethnography ,mobility ,migrant youth ,Belgium ,Transnational migration ,affect ,youth mobility trajectories ,transnational families ,transnational youth mobility ,homeland visits - Abstract
One in five young people across the European Union has a migration background, meaning that either they or their parents were born abroad. Many of these young people engage in visits to the country of origin on a regular basis and/or have been mobile before they migrated to Europe. Even though there is much research on the impact of migration on young people, their actual mobility has hardly been investigated. This dissertation investigates how the physical mobility to and within Ghana shapes the lives of Ghanaian-background youth living in Belgium. It does so by examining their ‘mobility trajectories’, that is, not only the migration move but all movements young people undertake over time and across geographically distinct localities, the concomitant family constellations these moves entail, and what happens during mobility. Ethnographic research in Belgium and Ghana with 25 young people of Ghanaian-background reveals how youth use their own mobility and digital media to create and maintain effective engagements, meaning the connections with people and places in the country of origin. These connections in turn shape experiences with family reunification and separation, personal growth and future pathways, and their relationship with the country of origin.
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- 2022
35. Transnational youth mobility trajectories: an ethnography of young people with a migration background between Ghana and Germany
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Laura J. Ogden, Mazzucato, Valentina, Fürstenau, Sara, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE, and RS: FASoS GTD
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migrant youth ,Germany ,transnational mobility ,Ghana - Abstract
This thesis investigates the ‘transnational youth mobility trajectories’ of migrant youth, meaning all the moves that young people make in their lives, including migrations but also family visits, holidays, internships, and transitions between different school systems. An increasing proportion of young people around the world have a migration background, and recent research shows that many migrant youth in Europe travel regularly to their country of origin. Nevertheless, we know very little about the way mobility affects their lives. As part of the ‘Mobility Trajectories of Young Lives’ project (www.motrayl.com), this thesis focused on Ghanaian-background youth (15-25 years) living in Hamburg. It shows that migrant youth are very mobile, that the frequency and reasons for their mobility change over time, and that mobility has important effects on their lives in the country of residence. Experiences in the country of origin – including schooling, family environments, and other important relationships – can provide valuable resources, like confidence and motivation, and other forms of support that help migrant youth navigate schooling and life in the country of residence.
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- 2022
36. Young lives on the move : the mobility trajectories and transnational affective engagements of Ghanaian-background youth living in Belgium
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Anschütz, Sarah, Mazzucato, Valentina, and Clycq, Noël
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Sociology - Abstract
One in five young people across the European Union has a migration background, meaning that either they or their parents were born abroad. Many of these young people engage in visits to the country of origin on a regular basis and/or have been mobile before they migrated to Europe. Even though there is much research on the impact of migration on young people, their actual mobility is hardly investigated. Against this backdrop, this dissertation investigates how the physical mobility to and within Ghana shapes the lives of Ghanaian-background youth living in Belgium. It does so by examining their ‘mobility trajectories’, that is, not only the migration move but all geographical moves young people undertake over time and across geographically distinct localities, the concomitant family constellations these moves entail, and the emotional and embodied experiences young people have during mobility. Multi-sited ethnographic research in Belgium and Ghana with 25 young people of Ghanaian-background reveals how youth create and maintain affective engagements with people and places in the country of origin through their own mobility and digital media use, and how these connections in turn shape experiences with family reunification, personal growth, and their relationship with the country of origin. By including both the country of origin and residence, and by analyzing mobility over the life course and in real time, this dissertation gives insights into how young people give meaning to their transnational lives and mobility experiences, and ultimately provides a deeper understanding of the temporalities, emotionalities and impacts of youth mobility.
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- 2022
37. 'You can't limit yourself to one country': Mobility trajectories and transnational engagements of young Dutch-Ghanaians
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Gladys Akosua Serwah Akom Ankobrey, Mazzucato, Valentina, Wagner, Lauren, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE, RS: FASoS GTD, and RS: FASoS CGD
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the Netherlands ,transnational youth ,Ghana ,mobility - Abstract
Many young people in Europe with a migration background grow up regularly visiting their or their parents’ country of 'origin'. Although mobility is an intrinsic part of these young people’s lives, little is known about what transpires during their trips and how this affects them. Based on 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the Netherlands and Ghana, this dissertation investigates how young Dutch-Ghanaians’ mobility trajectories shape their engagements with the country of ‘origin’ (i.e. transnational engagements). The concept of ‘mobility trajectories’ captures all the moves young people make over time and across geographically distinct localities, and the shifting family constellations that this entails. By looking at young people’s current trips (undertaken when they enter into adulthood) as they unfold and as part of broader trajectories, this dissertation reveals changes in terms of the people, practices and places that are important to young people during trips to Ghana throughout their life-course. More importantly, it captures the emotions and meaning-making processes underlying young people’s evolving transnational engagements. Ultimately, this dissertation provides a more nuanced understanding of the factors that shape young people’s connections to more than one country as they build a future for themselves.
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- 2022
38. Nederlanders and buitenlanders
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van de Weerd, Lisa Pomme, Cornips, Leonie, Jaspers, J., Wesseling, Elisabeth, Literature & Art, Jaspers, Jürgen, WESSELING, Lies WL, Mazzucato, Valentina, Van de Vall, Renée, De Brabanter, Philippe, Calabrese, Laura, Bucholtz, Mary, and Madsen, Lian Malai
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Turkish ,ethnographie ,Ethnic group ,integration ,ethnography ,Scientific discourse ,Ethnography ,linguistic anthropology ,origin ,Meaning (existential) ,Sociology ,Religious orientation ,sociolinguistics ,Anthropologie culturelle et sociale ,education ,youth ,Sociolinguistique ,ethnicité ,Gender studies ,éducation ,categorization ,language.human_language ,labels ,Linguistic anthropology ,Categorization ,categorisation ,language ,ethnicity - Abstract
‘Nederlanders and buitenlanders: A sociolinguistic ethnographic study of ethnic categorization among secondary school pupils’ is a study based on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork among pupils of the vocational track of a secondary school in Venlo, the Netherlands. Many of these pupils had a migration background, and though they were born in the Netherlands, they often referred to themselves as buitenlander (‘foreigner’), Marokkaan (‘Moroccan’), or Turk (‘Turk’), and referred to others without migration backgrounds as Nederlanders (‘Dutch people’).In this dissertation, van de Weerd combines ethnographic descriptions of the local context with ethnomethodological analyses of interactions to analyze such self- and other-categorizations. Although the use of categories such as Nederlander and buitenlander are commonly interpreted as straightforward indications of (dis) identification with a country or ethnic identity, it is argued that their meanings are constructed and negotiated in local interactions and are therefore much more complex. The pupils in this study, for instance, regularly discussed categories in association with certain clothing styles, language, or behavior, or jokingly teased each other by speaking negatively about these categories. The dissertation furthermore analyzes the relation between categorization practices and the use of different linguistic resources such as Dutch, Limburgish, Turkish, Arabic, and/ or Berber. ‘Nederlanders and buitenlanders’ may be of relevance to researchers interested in categorization in interaction, ethnicity, identification, the effects of diversification outside the metropolitan area, and more broadly, linguistic ethnography and sociocultural linguistics., Dans Néerlandais et étrangers, j'étudie la façon dont les élèves du secondaire à Venlo, ‘classe 3/4b,’ se sont référés aux hiérarchies sociales locales et sociétales, et comment ils ont traité ce sujet, en se catégorisant eux-mêmes et les uns les autres en termes ethniques et en utilisant différents moyens linguistiques. La question de recherche, introduite dans le Chapitre 1, est la suivante: Quelles sont les significations et les fonctions respectives des catégories ethniques et des moyens linguistiques utilisés pour les élèves et les enseignants de la classe 3/4b ?J'ai mené cette étude sur la base des données recueillies pendant neuf mois de travail ethnographique sur le terrain avec les élèves, et en analysant les interactions entre les élèves, les enseignants et moi-même, principalement avec l'analyse de la catégorisation des membres (ACM) et l'analyse de la conversation (AC).À peu près la moitié des élèves de la classe 3/4b sont d'origine étrangère et, bien qu'ils soient nés aux Pays-Bas, ils se classent régulièrement, eux- mêmes et les autres, sous les étiquettes ‘étranger’, ‘Marocain’ et ‘Turc’, et qualifient les autres (mais pas eux-mêmes) de ‘Néerlandais’. Cette catégorisation faisait partie des interactions quotidiennes, que ce soit en se taquinant, en faisant ses devoirs ou en racontant des ragots sur des connaissances. L'utilisation de divers moyens linguistiques (en plus du néerlandais standard, les élèves ont utilisé l'arabe, le berbère, le turc, et les dialectes régionaux de Venlo et Tegelen, entre autres, dans leurs interactions) s'est également avérée importante pour élaborer ces catégories et en discuter., Doctorat en Langues, lettres et traductologie, info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
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- 2020
39. Being mobile, becoming educated
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Joan (Johanna Hendrikje Maria) van Geel, Mazzucato, Valentina, Schneider, Hildegard, RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE, Technology & Society Studies, and RS: FASoS GTD
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- 2019
40. Migration and networks in transit
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Marieke Wissink, Mazzucato, Valentina, Düvell, F., RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE, Technology & Society Studies, and RS: FASoS GTD
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transnational migration ,Sub saharan ,Geography ,Turkey ,Greece ,Transit migration ,Irregular migration ,irregular migration ,Economic geography ,Social networks - Abstract
Journeys of irregular migrants are often far from easy, straightforward moves from one country to another. This is typically explained in relation to restrictive migration policies, and by migrants’ difficulties with providing financial support to their social networks in their countries of origin. Such reasoning is based on assumptions about the anticipated course of the journey and the role of migrants’ social networks. This thesis questions such assumptions and investigates the mechanisms by which journeys evolve. It shows how this evolution is related to changes taking place in migrants’ social networks and the experience of critical events. The findings stress the importance of viewing migration as part of people’s life trajectories, which can take unexpected and uncalculated turns.
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- 2019
41. Protecting across borders: Sudanese families across the Netherlands, the UK and Sudan
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Ester Serra Mingot, Mazzucato, Valentina, Baby-Collin, V., Technology & Society Studies, and RS: FASoS GTD
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Sudan ,African migrants ,transnationalism ,transnational families ,social protection - Abstract
Cette these examine la facon dont les migrants soudanais aux Pays-Bas et au Royaume-Uni organisent leur protection sociale, pour eux et leurs familles au Soudan, localement et au-dela des frontieres. Dans notre monde globalise, de plus en plus de personnes vivent au-dela des frontieres nationales, developpant des attaches et des responsabilites dans plus d’un Etat-nation. Toutefois, les systemes de protection sociale formels traditionnels ont ete concus pour repondre aux besoins de populations sedentaires liees a un seul pays. Dans ce contexte, cette these examine les strategies que les migrants developpent pour couvrir leurs propres besoins de protection sociale et/ou ceux de leurs familles, englobant une serie d'elements formels et informels provenant de differentes institutions (Etats, marches, organisations du tiers secteur ou reseaux sociaux informels). En prenant la famille elargie comme unite analytique principale, cette these montre que meme si certaines ressources formelles sont disponibles pour des individus migrants, elles peuvent ne pas correspondre aux choix privilegies pour la protection sociale de leur famille. En prenant en consideration le contexte soudanais, cette these souligne l’importance des normes socio-culturelles du pays d’origine sur la maniere dont le soutien intra-familial, en particulier les soins, doit etre fourni. Cette these est basee sur les donnees collectees durant 14 mois d'ethnographie multi-situee conduite avec des migrants aux Pays-Bas et au Royaume-Uni, et leurs familles au Soudan.
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- 2018
42. Migration, family separation and caregiving across borders
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Miranda Poeze, Mazzucato, Valentina, van Walsum, S., Dito, Bilisuma, and RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE
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Family unit ,Shared parenting ,Gender studies ,The Netherlands ,Left behind ,migration ,Raising (linguistics) ,Ghana ,ethnography ,Family dynamics ,Ethnography ,transnational families ,Sociology ,Family reunification ,Socioeconomic status ,family reunification - Abstract
Migrant parents cannot always migrate with their children. This dissertation examined how the contexts of the home and host countries influenced transnational family dynamics. Ethnographic research among Ghanaian migrant parents in the Netherlands and the children they left behind in Ghana reveals that cultural norms around shared parenting facilitate translational family relationships and mitigate negative effects on individual family members, while at the same time making traditional practices more challenging. The legal and economic status of migrant parents and the options for family reunification also determine how transnational parenting is practised and what the consequences are for individual family members and the stability of the family unit as a whole.
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- 2018
43. Parenting across borders : effects of transnational parenting on the lives of Angolan and Nigerian migrant parents in The Netherlands
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R.K. Haagsman, Mazzucato, Valentina, Dito, Bilisuma, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASoS GTD, and RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE
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transnational separation ,Political science ,Media studies ,Context (language use) ,Demographic economics ,migrant parents ,Socioeconomic status ,Country of origin - Abstract
This study is about Angolan and Nigerian parents who live in the Netherlands, but whose children reside in the country of origin. It examines whether this separation effects the wellbeing of the migrant parent. The study reveals that transnational separation can indeed have a negative impact on the wellbeing of the parents. However, this separation does not have to be problematic if good family arrangements are made, such as maintaining regular contact with the child. Furthermore, the context of migration and integration proves a crucial factor. Undocumented migrants and migrants with a low socioeconomic status are particularly prone to reduced wellbeing, partly due to limitations in migration policy that can hinder physical contact with the child.
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- 2015
44. The economic and social effects of remittances and return migration in conflict-affected areas : the case of Burundi
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S. Fransen, Mazzucato, Valentina, Koser, K., Vargas-Silva, C., and RS: FSE
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migration ,development - Abstract
This dissertation studies the effects of remittances and return migration on households and communities in Burundi and shows that in a conflict-affected country such as Burundi, which is one of the poorest countries the world, migration does not have the anticipated development-boosting effect that comes forward from the policy and academic literature on migration and development. The economic development impact of remittances, for example, was limited because remittances did not reach the citizens who needed it the most. Similarly, return migration led to structural inequalities between return and non-return households in terms of land ownership and was found to negatively affect the living conditions of non-return households as well. The findings of this research highlight the necessity of a basic level of development before migration can positively affect development.
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- 2015
45. Family-member migration and the psychosocial health outcomes of children in Moldova and Georgia
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M.T. Vanore, Mazzucato, Valentina, Siegel, M., and RS: FSE
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family-member migration ,impacts ,geographic locations - Abstract
This dissertation examined the relationship between family-member migration and the psychosocial health of children remaining in the origin country. Using survey data collected in Moldova and Georgia, analyses revealed that child-migrant separation does not correspond to universally negative child emotional health outcomes. In Georgia, no form of family-member migration corresponded to unfavourable psychosocial health outcomes; in Moldova, only the migration of a father corresponded to worse outcomes, and only among boys. These results suggest that the potential impacts of migration on child psychosocial health are heterogeneous and shaped by factors such as the gender of the migrant and child.
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- 2015
46. Living apart together across borders : how Ghanaian couples form, transform, or dissolve in the context of international migration
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Caarls, K., Mazzucato, Valentina, Dito, Bilisuma, Technology & Society Studies, RS: FASoS GTD, and RS: FASOS - MACIMIDE
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Ghanaian couples ,living apart together across borders - Abstract
This thesis provides insight into the role of international migration in how Ghanaian couples form, transform or dissolve. It investigates if, when and where families live geographically separate from each other and if, when and where they reunify. Employing a transnational approach, this dissertation incorporated the notion that migrants are embedded in multiple contexts. This means that: 1) the contexts of the sending and receiving countries are taken into account, 2) couples that did not migrate are included, and 3) the findings are contextualized by considering the cultural and familial norms of the sending country. This thesis demonstrates that the sending country context as well as the receiving country context affects the way in which families live transnationally or reunify. Comparing migrants and non-migrants showed that international migration shapes the transnational family, and it also reveals that some types of living arrangements are related to socio-cultural practices in the sending country, which emphasizes the importance of taking the sending country context into account when studying processes related to international migration. At the same time, restrictive policies and different normative contexts in receiving countries also influence the formation and transformation of transnational family life.
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- 2015
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